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- Title
THE IMPORTANCE OF FATHERHOOD TO U.S. MARRIED AND COHABITING MEN.
- Authors
Tichenor, Veronica; Mcquillan, Julia; Greil, Arthur L.; Contreras, Raleigh; Shreffler, Karina M.
- Abstract
Using a non-hierarchical approach to identity theory, we construct a scale to analyze the characteristics associated with the importance of fatherhood in a national sample of male partners (N = 932) of U.S. women of reproductive age, including fathers and non-fathers. OLS multiple regression shows that economic situation is not associated with importance of fatherhood, but valuing career success, higher education, higher religiosity and non-egalitarian gender attitudes (compared to egalitarian) are associated with higher importance of fatherhood scores. Leisure, age, fertility problems, and non-egalitarian gender attitudes are associated with importance of fatherhood scores differently for fathers and non-fathers. Although fathers place a higher value on fatherhood than do non-fathers, non-fathers, especially those who have experienced infertility, also have high importance of fatherhood scores.
- Subjects
UNITED States; ANALYSIS of variance; ATTITUDE (Psychology); CHI-squared test; CULTURE; FATHERHOOD; FISHER exact test; GROUP identity; INFERTILITY; INTERVIEWING; MARITAL status; MEN; PSYCHOLOGY; SCALE analysis (Psychology); SPIRITUALITY; T-test (Statistics); THEORY; MULTIPLE regression analysis
- Publication
Fathering: A Journal of Theory, Research & Practice about Men as Fathers, 2011, Vol 9, Issue 3, p232
- ISSN
1537-6680
- Publication type
Journal Article
- DOI
10.3149/fth.0903.232